“Look after our town, or we won’t have one”

Madam

No doubt you would have paid your rates, your electricity bill and all the other expenses, and you surely would have noticed that the direction of these bills is going nowhere else but up.

Visitors to Hay in their $300,000 rigs, vehicles and RVs enjoy a bill respite. A spot to stop at the biggest camp inside a town boundary in Australia with free water, toilets, free toilet paper and waste water on the ground.

With no burnable wood at Sandy Point, I feel sure the men, on their way to the toilets at night, find a tree at night.

With over 80 per cent of the Sandy Point visitors staying overnight and gone in the morning, everything in Hay is too dear.

I hate to think it has already started, with the little red and white trucks in town seven days a week. Again, it is too dear to shop in Hay.

Let’s give employment to Deniliquin and Griffith and add a few more dollars to the billions of dollars they announced recently, so the shareholders from the top end of town can benefit.

The two supermarkets as well as the local business houses employ locals, and their support of the town can be seen everywhere. I don’t see any support from the company that sends the little trucks to town.

Recently a letter to the editor complained that it was too dear in Hay.

Here is a test; take your out-of-town docket and match it with the local stores. You can see what you buy and what becomes of all the paper bags.

If we don’t look after our town, we won’t have one, just a lot of empty shops.

Bob Dougall.

Hay, NSW